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I had a neighbor that put a small-block chevy V8 in an old Allis Chalmers tricycle. He said his son had followed him on the high way and he got to 45MPH and flagged down his dad before he crashed.
Now that is stupid dangerous!
 
Was watching some farm oriented YouTube’s this week, and the one fella was demonstrating how tippy a poorly weighted loader tractor, compact, is unless you use the right counterweight for the job.

One of the comments was that the govt should issue licenses and safety courses before letting a person buy a tractor.

They were serious about it.

Sheez.

The biggest employer in town, since somewhere in a factory in the USA managed to cut their hand with a pair of scissors one time, now any time you pick up a scissors you have to put on cut proof gloves first. Really? If an adult is too dumb to know how to use scissors, I don’t want them working next to me with or without the gloves on. Come on.

The most dangerous day I had with a tractor was when I got my little compact loader, being from the 90s it has a lot of safety features on it, wide front, etc. I took an empty wagon down my driveway with it, got on the dew grass on the edge of the road, and got pushed all the way down to the bottom of the hill. With no weights on the rear that was one scare of a ride!

Meanwhile, the loader I ran for the previous 35 years was dads IHC H, narrow front, no power steering, no live hydraulics, no roll bar, wheels set in to fit in the barn door, etc. I never really had a real bad moment with that tractor.

So, which is the most dangerous? Hum.

(I parked the newer loader until the coop could get out and put fluid in the tires. Been a wonder full little loader, stable and safe, since then.)

Paul
 
Some people are why the "Carry Load Low" is/was on many pieces of equipment.
Back when local news was just news, they showed a pic af a tipped over tractor a fella had just lost it all on.
Of course, the loader was high in the air.
 
All the tractor shows I been to have a lot of reminders on safety. One of requirements at the HCOP show in Rantoul involve a safety speech that has to be attended if you intend to anything on the grounds with your equipment, including the Thursday morning tractor ride. After the speech you get your operators badge and your good to go.
I guess all these years I can only remember one serious accident during a show.
Little girl darted behind a tractor while it was being unloaded and got ran over. Not knowing the particulars of how it could possibly be I heard she wasn’t hurt.
Had another man that suffered heat stroke on a steam engine in my early days at Pinckneyville. He didn’t survive 😔
 
Ray said:
Common sense isn't so common today
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Sure it is. The thing is, the population has grown so much, and with instant world wide world access to news, we just hear about things more. Its probably a safe bet that the common sense % , lack of or having, is probably the same.

That said, I am sure all the crap allowed in our processed food diet is killing off some smarts.
 
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You can try to be as careful as possible, but things do happen I have been operating equipment for over65 years and have had several close calls. when you are working with anything that has power or weight it can get you hurt or even killed, I have been very lucky not to have been hurt badly in my line of work [ farming, and heavy eq. operator] the only times I've been hurt were when I did something stupid with nothing to do with eq,
 
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